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Ear Plugs
1800–55
Konbaung period
Ear plugs or ear tubes were worn as an adornment by all levels
of Burmese society. Royalty and the nobility would have used
ones made of precious materials such as these.
Gold and diamonds
Green jade
Burma (probably Amarapura or Ava (now Inwa))
Acquired by the East India Company Museum in 1855
Museum nos. 03156&a (IS), 03172 (IS) [14/06/2011]